Date: Apr 30, 2012 Source: (
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Artep was awarded a contract from the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The contract is for the Mechanical Design, Manufacture, and Alignment of a High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometer for the Analysis of Spent Nuclear Fuel.
Artep was awarded a contract from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
This contract is for the Conceptual Design and Build of a two-crystal survey X-ray spectrometer system that will operate in the 6-150 keV energy range and be deployed in a TIM compatible instrument manipulator on NIF with expected front-end standoff distance from target chamber center of 3 m.
The spectrometer shall use image plates for recording the X-ray spectra. The spectrometer shall be designed to accommodate electronic detectors to be attached in the future.
When operating in the 6-150 keV energy range the spectrometer system shall be able to record, with resolving power E/?E of at least 200, the K shell spectra from elements with Z>25, i.e. heavier than Mn, and L shell spectra from elements with Z>63, i.e. heavier than Eu.
